Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

SMILF is the best worst named show on tv.

I think i only started watching in by accident because that name is horrible . wonder how many people will never give it a chance becasue of it ? it's a good show though.

i saw a bit on freeview weekend but i thought it was one of skinemax-ish soft porns & changed the channel lol

I watched the SMILF premiere but didn't really like it. Fuck Boston and all who dwell therein, for one thing (not about baseball, so don't start), plus it just wasn't that funny or perceptive or anything, to me.

Just started watching Shut Eye on Hulu, which is about a ring of fake psychics in L.A. - Jeffrey "Burn Notice guy" Donovan is the lead, but Isabella Rossellini is the matriarch of the Romany gang that owns Donovan and his wife.

I thought the first ep of SMILF was kind of average, seemed to trot many single mom/working class tropes and also showed the lead naked more than was necessary, but subsequent eps are better.

smilf sounds like a spinoff of too many cooks

search party started so well but turned out uneven. entire plotlines and milieux felt unnecessary or thinly conceived (the cop; the political campaign; julian; drew's scheme to get posted to shanghai) - so much so that those parts almost felt amateurish - the studenty side of the 90s indie film gestalt that i am convinced this show is mining, i guess - but what worked was amazing. the crazy neighbor. portia and elliot. drew and dorie. the constant dread. i am looking forward to portia's weirdo director being brought into the circle of trust (?!)

how could i leave out chantal?? dying @ chantal every time

it got really wobbly here at the end; curious to see how they bring this full circle

watching search party s1 right now. imo it's p flawed but entertaining enough. i don't usually say this but it's like they forgot to write any likeable characters

in season 2 they really dropped the ball on that one, expressed before the lack of empathy for the characters from the writer's POV seems pretty shallow. bailed on season 2, more power to those into it

Second season of Lethal Weapon was even more fun than the first

yeah it was pretty great

I'm finishing the final season of Episodes now and realizing how much I'm going to miss this show. LeBlanc owns every scene he's in.

tbh i'm enjoying runaways a lot more than y'all led me to expect. certainly runs rings around The Gifted, its LA gets some local details right, and iirc the first arc of the books takes a while too

Runaways is actually decent, it’s just I am expecting them to actually run away at some point

i like Runaways a lot

have to admit the error of my ways with not giving search party season 2 a good chance, it's really grow on me. chantal is great

*grown

whattayaknow, Maisel is very good! Will watch more.

and, sad to say, Search Party completely bellyflopped its last three episodes, wtf

ulysses otm

seems like they also forgot the jokes on this season too, the key bit was probably the funniest part

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Kinda hope they get to make a movie or something to tie up where the end of season 2 leaves the series, as I guess it is cancelled. Second season was good, but it had more sadness and less zany from some of the side characters like the Rowdy 3 and Bart.

getting caught up on better things, which i like a lot, but is exactly louie m/l btw (and im fine w/), & the eulogy ep is overrated imo

XP maybe the worst thing to never have appeared on screen tbj

Autocorrect - ever

johnny crunch otm

man, marvelous mrs. maisel is really good!

deems you’ve never been more wrong Dirk is gr8

Ya Ive only seen S1 but I loved it! But I can see why the Dirk actor/character could grate on some people.

s2 conceptually is even weirder than s1, v enjoyable!

I have been meaning to check it out but the involvement of the toxic writer kid has kind of poisoned me, now

yeah that is a large downside, no question

No ur wrong VG

U r

um no its gr8 yr wrong
it had to happen sooner or later deems

I am not starting a TV show/vg thread to mirror the tombot/movie one and I don't care what u attempt

Tell you what tho VG

Mindhunter is really clumsy and flawed but unabomber one is very good.

Don't @ me

I'm going in on Dark

deems did u just wake up rong today

actualol

Specifically asked u not to @ me iirc

Deems fell out of the challopian tube today

i mean it
i’m worried about u

You are not. If I started agreeing with all and sundry you might be tho.

Mindhunter and manhunt unabomber is def worth a compare/contrast tho.

manhunt unabomber = protagonist surrounded by a papers spread out on the floor every 20 minutes
it wasn’t BAD but it was v spoonfeeding & more mediocre than i wanted

I felt exactly that about the other. I think unabomber is more compelling and much more even in tone.

Mindhunter is like glee but for murderers

who hurt u

Hahaha

in other tv news i started This Is Us

i can’t decide if I like it or if my skeleton wants to leave my body

but I am here bcz of Sterling K Brown and here i will stay

I couldn’t take that show. And that’s coming from a Parenthood lover.

Mrs Maisel was indeed one of the best things on tv this year. The only iffy thing about it was having Lenny Bruce as a character.